Abstract: A primitive equation model of the equatorial Pacific Ocean was forced by realistic wind stress distributions over decades. Results were presented for a set of two experiments. In the first experiment the model was forced ...

Abstract: The multidecadal climate variability in the North Pacific region is investigated by using a 2000-yr-long integration with a coupled ocean?atmosphere general circulation model. It is shown that the multidecadal variability ...

Abstract: Analyses of annual mean sea surface temperatures (SST) from observations for the period 1903?94 and four different general circulation models (GCMs) were conducted. The two dominant EOFs of all datasets are characterized ...

Abstract: The decadal-scale variability in the tropical Pacific has been analyzed herein by means of observations and numerical model simulations. The two leading modes of the sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the central ...

Abstract: The dominant pattern of atmospheric variability in the North Atlantic sector is the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Since the 1970s the NAO has been well characterized by a trend toward its positive phase. Recent atmospheric ...

Abstract: Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analyses (rotated or not) are widely used in climate research. In recent years there have been several studies in which EOF analyses were used to highlight potential physical mechanisms ...

Abstract: This study investigates the influence of El Niño on the upper-ocean circulation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean (via changes in the Atlantic trade winds) by analyzing observed sea surface temperature (SST) together with an ...